Sam Pollard

I'm currently in flux of where to post my research updates. Looking for a formal methods/programming language/software engineering community on one of the socials.

05.05.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Going back to Twitter for now. Bluesky doesn't have the same level of liveliness, and its Discover tab will show the same posts for days or weeks in a row.

30.12.2023 23:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chapter 8: addition

A book in my shelf. It's interesting that from a floating-point perspective, addition is harder than multiplication because figuring out the magnitude is more difficult than addition, so requires more logic.

19.10.2023 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Handcar

Some people on here arguing over public transit when what we really need is thousands of miles of railways for these only

09.10.2023 04:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awaken is a weird spell. One time my party awakened a bird and asked it some questions, then tried to bring it back to its mate. I then posed that the creature would never be able to bond with its mate on any meaningful level because their intelligence differences were too vast.

22.09.2023 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good lighthouse facts in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJU...

22.09.2023 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I ran a one-shot with that worked out great. The festival had great activities and plot hooks, and the dungeon was just enough to wrap up in a 5 hour session. Definitely worth the purchase!

21.09.2023 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Definitely check out Between Two Cairns and the guests/feed curated by Yochai. I've also enjoyed running Vaults of Vaarn, a science fantasy TTRPG.

21.09.2023 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting ideas. In my experience it's been harder to design encounters that are hostile _to the players_ instead of just _hostile_, but that difference can lead to more dynamic gameplay.

21.09.2023 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Importantly, the necromancers control over his minions is in complete and he can only vaguely suggest commands to them by way of saying "wouldn't it be cool if..."

18.09.2023 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tweet saying "the human mind was not meant to experience a grocery store" by @m0nstermf

Tweet saying "I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him." by @boywaif

The two sides of modernity

17.09.2023 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0